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GeForce GTS 250 1GB vs Radeon R7 M360

Intro

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB features a core clock frequency of 738 MHz and a GDDR3 memory speed of 1100 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 65/55 nm design. It is comprised of 128 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 M360, which makes use of a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1125 MHz. The DDR3 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 384 SPUs as well as 24 Texture Address Units and 8 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB should theoretically be quite a bit better than the Radeon R7 M360 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 70400 MB/sec
Radeon R7 M360 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 54400 (340%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTS 250 1GB should be a lot (more or less 75%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 M360. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 47232 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M360 27000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 20232 (75%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTS 250 1GB is superior to the Radeon R7 M360, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTS 250 1GB 11808 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M360 9000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2808 (31%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTS 250 1GB Radeon R7 M360
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 3, 2009 2015
Code Name G92a/b Oland
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 738 MHz 1125 MHz
Memory Speed 2200 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 145 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 70400 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 47232 Mtexels/sec 27000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 11808 Mpixels/sec 9000 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 128 384
Texture Mapping Units 64 24
Render Output Units 16 8
Bus Type GDDR3 DDR3
Bus Width 256-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 65/55 nm 28 nm
Transistors 754 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe x16 2.0 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 10 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 3.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTS 250 1GB

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Radeon R7 M360

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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